Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Davenport - Singer Songwriter

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The result was delete. Courcelles 22:56, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Davenport - Singer Songwriter

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Autobiographical/promotional article for a musician of questionable notability. Article is largely unsourced, copied from the artist's website. Google search on "Arthur Davenport" "Reality Bends" shows mainly primary sources and sales links - little significant coverage from independent sources. According to Billboard.com, he has never had an album or single on any chart. Only reference is to a "review" from Listen.com, but that only shows up on text provided by the artist to various sites - a search on Listen.com shows no results for this artist. Fails WP:MUSICBIO. MikeWazowski (talk) 16:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 16:40, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

G12 wholesale copyvio of the Biography tab on his website. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 19:19, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: it's not a copyvio - the source, which makes clear that it is WP:Autobiography, carries a release under GFDL and CC-BY-SA. JohnCD (talk) 20:31, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Autobigraphy of a musician without any coverage in reliable sources to establish notability. It seems he's kicked around here and there and managed to make a living as a musician, but hasn't really been noted. -- Whpq (talk) 17:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Entirely self promtional article about a non notable musician. Among his own claims to fame are the facts that he is a dropout who won a battle of the bands and was once featured on NPR performing his song. His only listed gigs consist of performing locally for 30 mins before the movie starts. You must be joking. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:18, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete no notability when i searched in a search engineCurb Chain (talk) 19:39, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.